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From: ags@s.cc.purdue.edu (Dave Seaman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: I would like to have an argument, please! (Re: F8X response (long))
Message-ID: <2359@s.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 28 Feb 88 20:11:43 GMT
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In article <707@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>In article <2355@s.cc.purdue.edu>, ags@s.cc.purdue.edu (Dave Seaman) writes:
>: The comparison is perfectly valid.  CMS users cannot normally open
>: files by name unless they remember to issue a FILEDEF before running
>: the program.
>
>I loathe and detest CMS, but this simply isn't true.

Look, this isn't an argument!  An argument isn't simply gainsaying
everything your adversary says!  (Apologies to Monty Python)

In case you want to make this a real argument by explaining WHY my
statement "simply isn't true," allow me to point out that my statement
was not "CMS users cannot EVER open files by name...".  I said that
"CMS users cannot NORMALLY open files by name...", and then I went on
to explain that there is an exception, but you left out that part when
you posted your followup.

I might also point out that I was discussing FORTRAN, not other languages
under CMS.  It shouldn't be necessary to say that, since this is
comp.lang.fortran, but if I don't say it, you'll probably point out that
other languages can open files by name under CMS, even though there is no
provision for this in FORTRAN.

-- 
Dave Seaman	  					
ags@j.cc.purdue.edu